Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks

Re: Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks

Serene Vannoy wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>> Serene Vannoy wrote:
>>> George Shirley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your wishes have been met, go here:
>>>> http :// www .uga.edu/nchfp/publications/nchfp/factsheets/splenda pickled beets.pdf
>>>>
>>>> They can be canned pretty much like any other acidic food, in a
>>>> Boiling Water Bath.
>>>
>>> George, I've grown to love you, I really have, but if you think I'm
>>> eating that Splenda crap, I just may have to break up with you.
>>>
>>> Serene
>> I eat it all the time but not in preserves Serene. The web site I sent
>> you has tons of recipes and surely one of them uses sugar. I make
>> pickled beets without any sweetener at all and they're pretty good.
>
> Hmm, I never even considered making them unsweet. (You know I was only
> kidding with you, right?)
>
> Serene
>
I'm never really sure anymore about that. So many people see so many
conspiracies in what we eat, what we wear, and what we put in our cars.
I just take it all with a grain of salt and go on about my business. I
don't take offense at things like that, it's counterproductive in my
reclining years (and that's not a misspelling). <BSEG>

George

Re: Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks

In article <6cvs5vFgksU13@mid.individual,net >,
Serene Vannoy <serene@serenepages.org> wrote:

> Sounds yummy. Now all I need to do is figure out how to can them. I do
> it the lazy way, and just pour the hot syrup over canned or cooked fresh
> beets, and then eat them in a few days, but I'd love to put some up
> during beet season.
>
> Serene

30 minutes in a boiling water bath. Do you have a Ball Blue Book? Or
So Easy to Preserve?
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http :// www .jamlady.eboard,com

Re: Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article <6cvs5vFgksU13@mid.individual,net >,
> Serene Vannoy <serene@serenepages.org> wrote:
>
>> Sounds yummy. Now all I need to do is figure out how to can them. I do
>> it the lazy way, and just pour the hot syrup over canned or cooked fresh
>> beets, and then eat them in a few days, but I'd love to put some up
>> during beet season.
>>
>> Serene
>
> 30 minutes in a boiling water bath. Do you have a Ball Blue Book? Or
> So Easy to Preserve?

I do, and after I made that post, I went and looked. It always looks so
much easier than I have it built up to in my head.

(I was shocked the first time I worked on a farm and helped the woman
there put up something like 56 quarts of applesauce. It was tiring and
hot work, but basically so easy. I had expected it to be a lot more
complicated.)

Serene
--
"I think I have an umami receptor that has developed sentience." -- Stef

Re: Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks


"Serene Vannoy" <serene@serenepages.org> wrote in message
news:6d0048FgksU18@mid.individual,net ...
> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> In article <6cvs5vFgksU13@mid.individual,net >,
>> Serene Vannoy <serene@serenepages.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds yummy. Now all I need to do is figure out how to can them. I do
>>> it the lazy way, and just pour the hot syrup over canned or cooked fresh
>>> beets, and then eat them in a few days, but I'd love to put some up
>>> during beet season.
>>>
>>> Serene
>>
>> 30 minutes in a boiling water bath. Do you have a Ball Blue Book? Or So
>> Easy to Preserve?
>
> I do, and after I made that post, I went and looked. It always looks so
> much easier than I have it built up to in my head.
>
> (I was shocked the first time I worked on a farm and helped the woman
> there put up something like 56 quarts of applesauce. It was tiring and hot
> work, but basically so easy. I had expected it to be a lot more
> complicated.)
>
> Serene
> --
Joy of Pickling has a couple or three recipes, including my all time fav
Pickled B**ts with Red W(h)ine. My whole family asks for them.
I always cut some slices up (after boiling or baking) and use a cookie
cutter in shape of moon & stars & sun, etc. for fancy shapes. An apple corer
makes nice portions with a round core that can be sliced up for "fancy
cuts." I guess real church ladies would use that cross cookie cutter I
couldn't force myself to buy. I figgered ol'JC would roll over in the cave
iffn' he saw that.
Edrena

Re: Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks

Mine are very simple. sugar, vinegar, water, salt, and a couple
habanero ( or milder) chilies. I like to get the biggest mother beets
I can, boil them and chunk them up.
When feeling risky I shove a few slices of horseradish in the jar just
for kicks. PamJd

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article <6cvpv1FgksU12@mid.individual,net >,
> Serene Vannoy <serene@serenepages.org> wrote:
>
> > Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> > > What are they supposed to taste like?
> >
> > Personally, I think they taste like heaven.
>
> Whatever. I'll light a candle for you.
> >
> > > Onions/no onions? Sweet-sour?
> >
> > I do onions, and a sweet & sour syrup of one part water, one part sugar,
> > one part white vinegar. (I don't truly pickle them, though, so I'm not
> > sure how that would work.)
> > Serene
>
> OK, the recipe I used used those ratios of sugar, water, and vinegar.
> And some pickling spices.
>
>
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http :// www .jamlady.eboard,com

Re: Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks

Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> Pics on alt.binaries.food.
> Follow-up to r.f.preserving
>
> One pint is done. I'll get some more beets and do the other pint
> later in the week. Blech!
>
> What are they supposed to taste like? Onions/no onions? Sweet-sour?
> I've never eaten them and have no plans to do so. How tender are
> they supposed to be? I could stick a toothpick into them with not
> much resistance. They'are about 1"-1-1/2" diameter. Whole.
>
> I made the syrup with mixed pickling spice with some cinnamon stick
> pieces and cloves added. Got this recipe from a lady at church who
> swears there're none better. I wouldn't know.
>
> Whaddaya think?
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http :// www .jamlady.eboard,com

Sounds right to me. Church ladies are always good cooks ;o}

Re: Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunks

On Jul 1, 1:47 pm, Melba's Jammin' <barbschal...@earthlink,net > wrote:
> Pics on alt.binaries.food.
> Follow-up to r.f.preserving
>
> One pint is done. I'll get some more beets and do the other pint later
> in the week. Blech!
>
> What are they supposed to taste like? Onions/no onions? Sweet-sour?
> I've never eaten them and have no plans to do so. How tender are they
> supposed to be? I could stick a toothpick into them with not much
> resistance. They'are about 1"-1-1/2" diameter. Whole.
>
> I made the syrup with mixed pickling spice with some cinnamon stick
> pieces and cloves added. Got this recipe from a lady at church who
> swears there're none better. I wouldn't know.
>
> Whaddaya think?
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> Huffy and Bubbles Do France: http :// www .jamlady.eboard,com

If you haven't ever eaten pickled beets, how do you know you don't
like them? They don't really taste like dirt, I don't know where you
get that. They are peeled, right?

They're supposed to taste like ... pickled beets. So good! So easy
to make! I love 'em. I ran out of my canned ones last winter, so I
might have to make some more this summer.

N.